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Migrants sew their mouths shut in quest for Mexico passage to U.S. border
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Jose Torres
Publishing date:Feb 15, 2022 • 11 hours ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
A migrant begins a hunger strike with his mouth sewed shut during a protest to demand free transit through the country outside the office of the National Migration Institute (INM) in Tapachula, Mexico February 15, 2022.
A migrant begins a hunger strike with his mouth sewed shut during a protest to demand free transit through the country outside the office of the National Migration Institute (INM) in Tapachula, Mexico February 15, 2022. PHOTO BY JOSE TORRES /REUTERS
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TAPACHULA — A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico’s southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday in a bid to convince the country’s immigration authority to grant them passage toward the U.S. border.
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The migrants, mostly Central and South Americans, helped each other seal their lips using needles and plastic threads, leaving a small space to consume liquids and using alcohol to wipe away drops of blood from the stitches, Reuters images show. “The migrants are sewing their lips together as a sign of protest,” said Irineo Mujica, an activist at the demonstration. “We hope that the National Migration Institute can see that they are bleeding, that they are human beings.”
Some were carrying their children when they staged the dramatic protest in Tapachula, a border city with Guatemala, which for months has been filled with thousands of migrants waiting for papers to be able to freely cross the country.
“I’m doing it for my daughter,” said Yorgelis Rivera, a Venezuelan. “She has not eaten anything in the last few hours and I see no solution … from the authorities.”
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“We are like prisoners here,” Rivera said, adding that she has been waiting for a response from Mexico’s migration agency (INM) for more than a month.
The INM did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the protest but said that they receive more than a hundred applicants at their offices in the southern city every day.
In recent years, the number of migrants arriving in Mexico fleeing violence and poverty has jumped. In 2021, Mexico recorded an 87% increase in the number of asylum applications, mainly from Haitians and Hondurans.
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) recently said that Mexico should consider new aid programs amid a surge in the arrival of foreigners, many of them Venezuelans, for whom Mexico now requires a visa. (Reporting by Jose Torres; Writing by Lizbeth Diaz and Valentine Hilaire; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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Jose Torres
Publishing date:Feb 15, 2022 • 11 hours ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
A migrant begins a hunger strike with his mouth sewed shut during a protest to demand free transit through the country outside the office of the National Migration Institute (INM) in Tapachula, Mexico February 15, 2022.
A migrant begins a hunger strike with his mouth sewed shut during a protest to demand free transit through the country outside the office of the National Migration Institute (INM) in Tapachula, Mexico February 15, 2022. PHOTO BY JOSE TORRES /REUTERS
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TAPACHULA — A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico’s southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday in a bid to convince the country’s immigration authority to grant them passage toward the U.S. border.
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The migrants, mostly Central and South Americans, helped each other seal their lips using needles and plastic threads, leaving a small space to consume liquids and using alcohol to wipe away drops of blood from the stitches, Reuters images show. “The migrants are sewing their lips together as a sign of protest,” said Irineo Mujica, an activist at the demonstration. “We hope that the National Migration Institute can see that they are bleeding, that they are human beings.”
Some were carrying their children when they staged the dramatic protest in Tapachula, a border city with Guatemala, which for months has been filled with thousands of migrants waiting for papers to be able to freely cross the country.
“I’m doing it for my daughter,” said Yorgelis Rivera, a Venezuelan. “She has not eaten anything in the last few hours and I see no solution … from the authorities.”
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“We are like prisoners here,” Rivera said, adding that she has been waiting for a response from Mexico’s migration agency (INM) for more than a month.
The INM did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the protest but said that they receive more than a hundred applicants at their offices in the southern city every day.
In recent years, the number of migrants arriving in Mexico fleeing violence and poverty has jumped. In 2021, Mexico recorded an 87% increase in the number of asylum applications, mainly from Haitians and Hondurans.
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) recently said that Mexico should consider new aid programs amid a surge in the arrival of foreigners, many of them Venezuelans, for whom Mexico now requires a visa. (Reporting by Jose Torres; Writing by Lizbeth Diaz and Valentine Hilaire; Editing by Sandra Maler)
Migrants sew their mouths shut in quest for Mexico passage to U.S. border
TAPACHULA — A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico’s southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday in a bid to convince the country’s immigration…
Migrants face freezing Christmas at U.S.-Mexico border
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Daniel Becerril and Daina Beth Solomon
Published Dec 24, 2022 • 2 minute read
MATAMOROS — Hundreds of migrants prepared to camp in the cold at Mexico’s northern border over Christmas, hoping for a swift reversal in U.S. migration restrictions as they endure the bite of a winter storm ravaging the United States.
After the U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled that restrictions known as Title 42 could stay in place temporarily, many migrants are facing a Christmas weekend of what Mexico’s weather service called a “mass of arctic air.”
“I’m staying here, where else can I go?” said Walmix Juin, a 32-year-old Haitian migrant preparing for the weekend in a flimsy tent in the city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas. “I never thought I would spend a Christmas like this.”
Temperatures in the border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa, where several thousand people are camping outside or in bare-bones shelters, are expected to hover around freezing on Saturday and only slightly improve on Sunday.
Further west in Ciudad Juarez, where hundreds of migrants have been lining up to seek asylum at the border with El Paso, Texas, temperatures are forecast to drop to minus six degrees Celsius (21 degrees Fahrenheit). Many have been sleeping in the streets.
Officials have provided more space in shelters in recent days, but some migrants are wary.
Wearing a baseball hat and jacket zipped to the chin, 29-year-old Venezuelan Antony Rodriguez has tried to stay warm in Matamoros by huddling under blankets in a tent with five relatives, he showed in a video shared with Reuters.
After an arduous trek across Central America and Mexico, Rodriguez said he turned down the offer of a shelter because he feared authorities would bus them south.
“We feel they’ll send us back,” he said.
Another Venezuelan in Matamoros, Giovanny Castellanos, said he was camping out in a tent on the border, wrapped up in blankets, to keep abreast of developments.
“If you go to shelter you’re further from here where the real information is,” the 32-year-old said.
Title 42 allows the United States to return migrants to Mexico or certain countries without a chance to request asylum. It had been due to end on Dec. 21 before the court ruling. Without clarity on when it will finish, some officials worry their cities could be overwhelmed if more migrants turn up.
“U.S. migration policy has a big impact here on the border,” Reynosa Mayor Carlos Pena Ortiz said on Friday. (Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon and Daniel Becerril; Additional reporting by Jackie Botts, Jose Luis Gonzalez and Lizbeth Diaz; Editing by Leslie Adler Editing by Dave Graham)
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Author of the article:Reuters
Reuters
Daniel Becerril and Daina Beth Solomon
Published Dec 24, 2022 • 2 minute read
MATAMOROS — Hundreds of migrants prepared to camp in the cold at Mexico’s northern border over Christmas, hoping for a swift reversal in U.S. migration restrictions as they endure the bite of a winter storm ravaging the United States.
After the U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled that restrictions known as Title 42 could stay in place temporarily, many migrants are facing a Christmas weekend of what Mexico’s weather service called a “mass of arctic air.”
“I’m staying here, where else can I go?” said Walmix Juin, a 32-year-old Haitian migrant preparing for the weekend in a flimsy tent in the city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas. “I never thought I would spend a Christmas like this.”
Temperatures in the border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa, where several thousand people are camping outside or in bare-bones shelters, are expected to hover around freezing on Saturday and only slightly improve on Sunday.
Further west in Ciudad Juarez, where hundreds of migrants have been lining up to seek asylum at the border with El Paso, Texas, temperatures are forecast to drop to minus six degrees Celsius (21 degrees Fahrenheit). Many have been sleeping in the streets.
Officials have provided more space in shelters in recent days, but some migrants are wary.
Wearing a baseball hat and jacket zipped to the chin, 29-year-old Venezuelan Antony Rodriguez has tried to stay warm in Matamoros by huddling under blankets in a tent with five relatives, he showed in a video shared with Reuters.
After an arduous trek across Central America and Mexico, Rodriguez said he turned down the offer of a shelter because he feared authorities would bus them south.
“We feel they’ll send us back,” he said.
Another Venezuelan in Matamoros, Giovanny Castellanos, said he was camping out in a tent on the border, wrapped up in blankets, to keep abreast of developments.
“If you go to shelter you’re further from here where the real information is,” the 32-year-old said.
Title 42 allows the United States to return migrants to Mexico or certain countries without a chance to request asylum. It had been due to end on Dec. 21 before the court ruling. Without clarity on when it will finish, some officials worry their cities could be overwhelmed if more migrants turn up.
“U.S. migration policy has a big impact here on the border,” Reynosa Mayor Carlos Pena Ortiz said on Friday. (Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon and Daniel Becerril; Additional reporting by Jackie Botts, Jose Luis Gonzalez and Lizbeth Diaz; Editing by Leslie Adler Editing by Dave Graham)
'Where else can I go?': Migrants face freezing Christmas at U.S.-Mexico border
Migrants prepared to camp in the cold at Mexico's northern border over Christmas, hoping for a reversal in U.S. migration restrictions.
Man - you should totally demand your tax dollars back!!! Oh wait...
Haiti. That's where you can go. And if you don't like it there then work with like minded people to fix it. Don't go to other people's homes and demand they take care of you because you're not willing to do the work to provide for yourself.
After the heat wave of -35, I could easily nap in a snowbank at the current -7.
It gets hotter as they go North.
It gets hotter as they go North.
A bit of feel good after the holiday. Props to the Religious and "Leftists" who helped these people on Christmas.
That's actually been part of the problem in the lower mainland - it went from snowing and brutally low temps to freezing rain then rocketed up to relatively warm weather and heavy rain overnight - now everthing got clogged with ice and flooded with water and snow melt. The restoration companies are running off the hook right now trying to keep up.
Yeah, it is. I was just talking to the contractors and insurance company about it. the last 2 years especially have been brutally bad for that. And ice rain was all but unheard of in the lower mainland until the last few years. It's completely different and frankly most of the buildings here just aren't designed for it. So its causing a lot of extra unusual damages.
Well there's that
But believe it or not a lot of this 'flooding' is happening in higher places and on sloped roofs and the like. And in places where there's normally more than adequate drainage but with these conditions the drains just aren't working. And going from 12 below to 10 above with heavy rain means that there's a lot of very frozen ice that won't thaw quick and very large amounts of water with no where to go. It's mostly over now - only a problem for a few days but in that short time it did a LOT of damage.
Weird question, but these 25 people that got dropped off in Washington DC in the cold on Christmas Day, none of them know what state they where in when they crossed into the US from Mexico I’m assuming to not be able to Identify the mystery governor? None of them knew what the last place they were in, in Mexico, so that anyone could connect the dots, to identify the mystery governor?
(I’m just up to let some dogs out for a pee ‘cuz they could hear the wind screaming at 2am so it seems like a great time to go out, then I’m hopefully going back to bed & sleep as it’s a school day starting in a few more hours….)
I think Beau purposefully kept the name unmentioned, but the news has reported that it was Abbott. I've looked for the number of migrants dropped off, but can't find a total as of yet.
The people he sent had no winter gear at all, evidently, and some were even in shorts I guess? Though considering the brownouts in Texas, they should be happier they're where they are now.
The point though is this happened Christmas which is a) totally tone deaf, unChristian and obviously a political stunt, and b) inhumane as he did this during a severe cold snap. Honestly this entire situation is getting ridiculous.
And flooding has been happening every winter , nothing new .Well there's that
It's mostly over now - only a problem for a few days but in that short time it did a LOT of damage.